Addressing ICA’s 75th anniversary, the 2025 conference theme is an invitation to critically reflect on communication studies as a discipline and ICA as an agent and site of disciplinarydevelopment. Theme sessions will take stock of our past, critically review presentdevelopments, and chart out future avenues for communication research. We particularlywelcome contributions speaking to three important aspects of the theme: communicationscholarship as a transformative and stabilizing force in society, as a research practice that canbe both revolutionary and consolidating, and communication studies as a disrupted andresilient discipline. In all these contexts, elements of disruption and consolidation are notnecessarily antithetical but may productively be framed as a dialectical relationship.
The DN34 International Conference on Discourse, Identity and Polarisation
This hybrid conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today's increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.